Thomas Boswell, one of the better baseball writers, says that the real key to understanding the subtleties of baseball is paying attention to the number of balls and strikes, to the count: The count [is] baseball’s open secret, the hidden key, the game-within-the-game that players
Did someone in the White House offer Rep. Joe Sestak a job in the administration if he would drop out of the Senate race against Arlen Specter? That’s what Sestak claimed during his successful Democratic primary race against the White-House endorsed Specter. If so, that
OK, it’s not on the scale of 1862, but since California is threatening to boycott Arizona because of its new law evicting illegal immigrants, Arizona is threatening to cut off California’s electricity. Los Angeles gets 25% of its power from Arizona. via Power Play Over
More evidence that our ancestors were not stupid: Where and how did medieval mapmakers, apparently armed with no more than a compass, an hourglass and sets of sailing directions, develop stunningly accurate maps of southern Europe, the Black Sea and North African coastlines, as if
Michael Gerson offers a memorable quotation: After the British army conquered the Sindh region of what is now modern-day Pakistan in the 1840s, Gen. Charles Napier enforced a ban on the practice of Sati — the burning of widows alive on the funeral pyres of
The actual subject of Michael Gerson’s column, quoted above, is the vogue in a number of European countries to ban the burqa, the Islamic garb that swaths women so that their bodies cannot be seen. After criticizing the practice, Gerson criticizes the atempts to outlaw
OK, maybe China won’t bury us economically after all: Quick: Think of a Chinese brand name. Japan has Sony. Mexico has Corona. Germany has BMW. South Korea? Samsung. And China has . . . ? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. And for China, that
Sunday was Pentecost, commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit 50 days after Easter and thus the birthday of the Church. Something I learned from Sunday’s service: The Holy Spirit was accompanied by miraculous language, which was not just words but powerful, life-changing words that
The Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod is doing good work in Haiti that is attracting attention. This from WORLD MAGAZINE: The LCMS has been in Haiti since the quake, providing for the immediate needs of the survivors: food, water, medical supplies and temporary shelter. They realize, however,
The Korean War of the 1950s has never officially ended. Now South Korea, after decades of restraint, is getting tough with its Stalinist neighbor to the North, responding to a deadly torpedo attack on one of its ships that killed 46 South Koreans: South Korean
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